Register now for Rural Health Book Club on "The Connection Cure” by Julia Hotz

Social prescribing is now a worldwide phenomenon, with umbrella organizations and an international conference. It’s interwoven, in various forms, into health care systems in Portugal, Singapore, the Netherlands, Canada, and Australia. But it’s hard, Hotz acknowledges, to imagine it broadly adopted in the United States—a nation with a quick-fix culture, a vast pharmaceutical marketing machine, and a health care provider shortage that makes it difficult for clinicians to even uncover the problems that lend themselves to social-prescribing solutions. To work at scale, Hotz argues, social prescribing requires buy-in from the medical system. 

Scholars may earn up to two hours in credit for participating in this book club session, one by reading the book, and the second by attending to chat! Community members welcome.

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